was sent to singapore alongswith khaye, lea, joel & edward to train & be certified for basic telecommunications. it was an expensive 4-day course, thanks to the 4 years i've held my breath at work, enough to establish my uncorrupted loyalty to them. this is just the most impelling perk my company offers for my department, opportunities to be sent abroad. others were sent to our european callcenters like in france, italy & uk. & on my earliest posts, i went blogging about being sent to the US for an application training, on my own.
we all agreed to meet 2 hours prior our 8am flight. we flew PAL, which was my first time. the take offs & landings were smoother & there was lesser turbulence compared to cebu pacific's aircraft. i flew cebu pac twice, for bora & HK. oh, if any of you gets amused by their on-flight parlor games, i would say that it's annoying & disruptive for those who naps during the flight & that includes moi. *:)
after our 3 1/2 hour flight, i looked for a public phone & immediately called a friend to let him know we've landed. my old friend, elton, whom i worked with before, is also rayne's godfather. he emailed me 2 days ago, if i could bring him some 'boy bawang' & 'polvoron'. i was able to buy 'boy bawang' only due to time constraints. at the airport, we headed over to duty free to snag lots & lots of inexpensive alcohol. we were already warned that alcohol & cigarettes amount to almost twice the price when bought in SG. carol, a friend who worked in ours a year ago, asked a favor if we could buy her 2 bottles of absolut vodka (i've not seen many of the flavors of vodka displayed there here in manila). and ofcourse we got ourselves one too, if in case we all pass the exams & celebrate before heading back home.
NAIA; Changi airport in Singapore
we didn't waste enough time unpacking. we bolted & explored the city right off. elton showed up by afternoon to tour us. ty elton!!!
lea, edward, moi & khaye; joel, lea, khaye, moi & that's elton beside me
at the mrt station; i forgot where this was taken hehe
the popular tiangge in SG, located at bugis street
my brother constantly sent me sms, bugged me to check out zildjian & sabian cymbals in SG which were sold cheaper, as he was told. another old friend, louie, who recently left SG to finish studies, asked me to get him contact lens solution in a mall he frequented in SG.
we had starbucks in the afternoon, had to chill down for a sec, for we only walked the long stretch of orchard road under the scorching sun! the humidity in SG's relatively warmer than in manila!
having elton w/ us, getting to places i needed to be was easy. like the plaza singapura mall, where i was effortlessly able to locate a big yamaha store & canvassed ian's cymbals & the optical shop louie instructed me to get his lense solution from.
..........waaaahhh. been digging through my brain what happened next for the past hour! what an airhead! all i remember is that we left the mall before 7pm (still daylight in SG) & lea ditched us to be w/ some local friends. we went back to our hotel, at the fugly summer view hotel hehe, located along bencoolen street. albeit the fugliness, it is still strategically situated just a hundred steps away from the training center & 8 mins from bugis street. very practical if we wanted to snag some cheap 'pasalubongs' during training breaks or after...
i remember we had our dinner at burger king haha. it was the closest, just 2 blocks away from our hotel, & we opted for something that would boot in our system (we could still taste it!!!) the very eccentric local grub we had for lunch haha.
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